Automatic and silent installation of security updates

[Wouter Stomp]

On 7/9/05, Jim Cheetham <jim at egressive.com> wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> >> You can't force people to upgrade.
> > In a corporate deployment it is almost unacceptable to not be able to.
> >
> However, a corporate doesn't often suffer from a dearth of bandwidth.
> Anyone selecting "automatic downloads" suffers from unpredictable loss
> of bandwidth when a download starts.
> 
> Unless the automation understands it needs to be well-behaved, in which
> case it will throttle its own use of the network, and be able to
> recover partial file fragments in case the connection goes away (when
> the user is unaware a download is in progress).
> 

The user shouldn't notice anything, all should happen in the
background, without limitting his network speed.

I would be great to have a choice between:
- Manually updating
- Automatic downloading of updates but manually installing
- Automatic downloading and installing updates

> Something better than a vanilla apt-get is required.
> 

Definitly, because it should also only do this for the official
repositories, so it should have a way to check for this as well.

Wouter